I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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But much would undoubtedly be gained towards that view of the question, if it could be shown, that, in order to controvert it, we were driven to the necessity of admitting long written poems, in the ninth century before the Christian aera. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer